Inside Stalin's Secret Police
Author: Robert Conquest
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
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Agents of Terror
Author: Alexander Vatlin
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0299310809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring Stalin's Great Terror, more than a million Soviet citizens were arrested or killed for political crimes they did not commit. Who carried out these purges, and what motivated them? Alexander Vatlin opens up the world of the Soviet perpetrators using detailed evidence from one Moscow suburb. Spurred by ambition or fear, local secret police rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting "enemies of the people"-even when it meant fabricating evidence. Vatlin confronts head-on issues of historical agency and moral responsibility in Stalin-era crimes.
Stalin's Police
Author: Paul Hagenloh
Publisher:
Published: 2009-05-15
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStalin’s Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. This pioneering study traces the development of professional policing from its pre-revolutionary origins through the late 1930s and early 1940s. Paul Hagenloh argues that the policing methods employed in the late 1930s were the culmination of a set of ideologically driven policies dating back to the previous decade. Hagenloh’s vivid and monumental account is the first to show how Stalin’s peculiar brand of policing—in which criminals, juvenile delinquents, and other marginalized population groups were seen increasingly as threats to the political and social order—supplied the core mechanism of the Great Terror.
Stalin's Secret Police
Author: Rupert Butler
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1782743510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrated with more than 100 black-and-white photographs and expertly written, Stalin’s Secret Police is a chilling history of the Soviet secret police from 1917 to the fall of Communism.
Stalin and the Lubianka
Author: David R. Shearer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0300171897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin’s death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives.
Terror by Quota
Author: Paul R. Gregory
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009-01-06
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0300152787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis original analysis of the workings of the Soviet state security organs under Lenin and Stalin illuminates the ways in which terror and repression in the Soviet Union were used during this period.
Yezhov
Author: John Arch Getty
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0300092059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive study of Nikolai Yezhov's rise to become the chief of Stalin's secret police--and the dictator's "iron fist"--during the Great Terror Head of the secret police from 1937 to 1938, N. I. Yezhov was a foremost Soviet leader during these years, second in power only to Stalin himself. Under Yezhov's orders, millions of arrests, imprisonments, deportations, and executions were carried out. This book, based upon unprecedented access to Communist Party archives and Yezhov's personal archives, looks into the life and career of the enigmatic man who administered Stalin's Great Terror. J. Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov seek to answer a series of troubling questions. What kind of person calmly and efficiently sends thousands of innocent people to their deaths? What could prepare a man for such a role? How could a person whom acquaintances describe as friendly, pleasant, and even gallant carry out one of history's most horrifying campaigns of terror? The authors uncover the full details of Yezhov's rise to power and conclude that he was not merely Stalin's tool but a skillful maneuverer in his own right. The historical documents provide a thorough portrait of Yezhov and reveal a man of fanatical dedication to his leader and his party--a man who became a willing murderer. Readers will find his story chilling, the more so in our own times, when the impulse to terror that engulfed Yezhov seems neither surprising nor unfamiliar.
Stalin’s Terror
Author: B. McLoughlin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-12-11
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 0230523935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British, Irish, Russian, American, German and Austrian contributors examine the intricate nature of the mass repression unleashed by the Stalinist leader of the USSR during 1937-38. The first part of the collection deals with annihilation policies against the Soviet elite and the Communist International. The second section of the volume looks at mass operations of the secret police (NKVD) against social outcasts, Poles and other 'hostile' ethnic groups. The final section comprises micro-studies about targeted victim groups among the general population.
Stalin's Secret War
Author: Rupert Butler
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe use of terror has been a characteristic of Russia from the days of the Tsars. During 'the Great Patriotic War', Soviet soldiers and citizens feared not only the Germans but the secret police. The agents of the NKVD waged a merciless campaign against their own people. The full extent of this operation is told in this compelling study.
Stalin's Loyal Executioner
Author: Marc Jansen
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0817929061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.
